PAVLISHCHEV, Nikolay Ivanovich].
Europe].Stanislas Strombskiy Varshava 1847 - 12mo (17.9 x 11.3 cm). xxiv including title, table of contents and preface, 179, [1] pp. Contemporary pink paper boards, yellow edges; slightly soiled, sunned. Part of Pavlishchev's Geography, on which he worked in the then provincial city of Warsaw. The work includes interesting facts and statistics about European powers, and their influence worldwide. A fresh copy of the first edition. The historian Nikolay Pavlishchev (1801-79) served in Poland about 40 years and published important works on Poland, Ukraine and Russia. When he was 24, he developed a close relationship with the slightly older Pushkin and married the poet's sister, Olga Sergeevna, three years later in 1828. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]
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